https://youtu.be/BWeFHddWL1Y CABARETE TIMELINE PRE-1492: Four thousand years before European contact, the Taíno people come up from the Orinoco and sail into the Caribbean Sea. They inhabit the island and split it into five chiefdoms. Maguá is the Chiefdom in which Cabarete is located. 1492: The arrival of the Spanish sparks indigenous resistance. Within years the Taíno population is …
When I hear foreigners talk about Dominicans in terms of health, it’s often to talk about what they think we lack or need to change. They come armed with statistics about diabetes, heart disease, and cholesterol. Yet as “holistic health” becomes a buzzword in the “developed” world, here natural medicine is and always has been …
Today we’re going to talk about dominicanismos or the words, expressions, and phrases that are common and unique to Spanish spoken in the Dominican Republic. Like any language, Spanish is subject to regional peculiarities, in the Dominican Republic we’ve adopted Taíno (indigenous) and African words and we’ve also repurposed Spanish words in some pretty interesting …
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YIELD: Serves 6 | ACTIVE TIME: 40 minutes | INACTIVE TIME: 15 minutes | DISH TYPE: Vegetarian In Dominican culture whenever anyone drops in during a mealtime we say ¡a buen tiempo! (meaning the person has arrived just in time), we serve an extra plate, and invite them to join us. Food is a family/community affair. Dominican food is traditionally meat heavy. Personally I love …